No change to traffic lights despite protests

Limerick City Council says they have no plans to alter traffic signals at the busy junction of Childers Road and the Old Singland Road, despite appeals by local people.

Parents of young schoolchildren attending St Brigid's National School have staged two days of protests to highlight ongoing road safety concerns.

They are calling for an additional lollypop person and a change to the sequencing of the lights to prevent motorists running the red lights while the green man is operational.

However Limerick City Council says the junction does not warrant an extra school warden and says the operation of the traffic lights is safe, but it says it has brought the matter of motorists breaking the lights up with the gardaí.

Officials from the local authority are due to meet with a delegation of residents next week.